Doll and costume therefor



p 19370 N. H. MUNSON, JR 2,093,207

DOLL AND COSTUME THEREFOR Filed Jan. 25, 1957 INVENTOR.

ATTORNEY.

Patented Sept. 14, 1937 UNITED STATES DOLL COSTUME THEREFOR Nelson H.Munson, Jr., West Springfield, Mala, assignor to McLoughlin Bros. Inc.,Springfield, Mass., a corporation of Massachusetts Application January25, 1937, Serial No. 122,186 5 Claims. (01. 46-157) This inventionrelates to improvements in dolls and costumes therefor and is directedmore particularly to the provision of a novel doll body and distinctivecostumes which are adapted to be removably attached to the doll body.

It is one of the principal objects of the invention to provide asubstantially fiat doll and'clothing therefor which is formed of sheetmaterial and adapted to be placed thereover. The parts are so arrangedthat the clothing will more or less cling to the doll body without theuse of paste, pins or other attaching means.

It is another object of the invention to provide a doll body which isdistinctively rovided with a particular kind of forward sur ace to whichclothing for the doll will removably adhere. This surface will be moreparticularly described below but it is of such a nature that it may bereadily secured to a flat body of cardboard or the like, or

the body itself may be formed of material which by its nature has theparticular surface desired.

It is another object to provide costumes or dresses for a doll body fromflat sheet material formed to have a rear or bottom surface which isadapted to adhere to the doll body. According to the preferred form ofthe invention, the material is cloth-like and the surface just mentionedis formed during the process of manufacture of the material.

Various other objects and advantages of the invention will become moreapparent after a reading of the following description and reference willbe had to the accompanying drawing wherein:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of the doll body of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of costumes of the invention; and

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the costumed doll.

Referring now to the drawing more in detail the invention will be fullydescribed.

There is shown in Fig. 1 a doll figure 2 which is cut out from a fiatsheet of some relatively stiflish yet light-weight material such ascardboard. The body is formed, and may be printed,

r side of the flat doll body 2 a sheet of what is known in the paperindustry as suede or phlox According to paper, which paper by its verynature has a somewhat fuzzy surface formed by relatively looselyarrangedfibers.

' In another way, this surface 4 may be provided by applying to the body2 a coating of some rubber-like composition, such as latex. Again thebody may be formed of a fibrous mass so as to have a roughened surfaceas contrasted with the usual finished surfaces of card-board so that oncontact therewith thev clothing will adhere thereto by means offriction.

In Fig. 2 costumes for the doll body are shown. A dress, indicated by 6,may be cut out from flat sheet material which, preferably, iscloth-like. This also may take various forms but it, too, has a tacky oradhesive rear surface 8. At It there is shown a jacket, having anadhesive surface I2.

According to the preferred form of the invention, the clothing materialconsists of a clothlike material having a roughened rear surface, suchas does felt or wool. As is well known, wool consists of a plurality ofloosely-arranged fibers so that its surfaces are fuzzy. In another way,the material may be a laminated fabric including an outer printed and/orcolored piece of relatively hard-surfaced cloth, such as linen, and aninner piece of wool-like material.

The dresses are placed over the doll body with the surfaces 4 and 8 orI! adjacent one another. I have found that then the parts tend to clingto one another and the costumed doll may be moved about and into variouspositionswith the costumes removably attached to the body without theuse of glue, pins or other auxiliary fastening means.

In another way, however, the sheet material from which the dresses aremade may consist of paper or the like having latex or a similarsubstance on its rear surface. Latex is suitable where the surface 4 isformed of a similar substance because this material tends to adhere toitself, yet the parts may be separated when it is desired to change thecostume.

- In Fig. 3, the costumed doll is shown with the dress 6 adhering to theroughened surface of the doll body 4 and the jacket III, which may ormay not be of similar material to the dress 6, adhering to the saiddress 6. Where the dress is cloth, I have found that the adhesivesurfaces of the dresses will adhere thereto just as well as to the dollbody. In this way parts of the costume may be changed at will.

The construction of this invention is such that the parts may be madesimply and at low cost.

As is obvious various and many effects canbggbtained and any one of aplurality of costumes may be readily removably attached to the dollbody.

While I have described the invention in great detail and with respect toa. preferred form thereof, it is not desired to be limited thereto sincemany changes and modifications may be made therein without departingfrom the spirit and scope of the invention. What it is desired to claimand secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. A doll and costume therefor comprising in combination, asubstantially flat doll body having a forward non-tacky surface to whichclothing may frictionally adhere, and an article of clothing cut outfrom cloth-like material having a rear surface in frictional engagementwith the forward surface of the body substantially throughout the areathereof.

2. A doll and costume therefor comprising in combination, a doll bodyformed of flat sheet material having a non-tacky velvety forwardsurface, and an article of clothing cut out from flat cloth-likematerial having a rear surface in frictional engagement with the saidvelvety surface of the body substantially throughout the area thereof.

3. A doll and costume therefor comprising in combination, a doll bodyformed of flat sheet material having a non-tacky velvety forwardsurface, and an article of clothing cut out from a sheet of felt infrictional engagement with the said velvety surface of the bodysubstantially throughout the area thereof.

4. A costumed doll comprising in combination, a substantially flattwo-dimensional doll body cut out from relatively thin flat sheetmaterial into the form of a doll and provided with a non-tacky velvetyforward surface, and a two-dimensional member cut out from a relativelythin and flat sheet of cloth-like material into the form of an articleof clothing and provided with a non-tacky velvety rear surface, the saidnon-tacky surfaces being disposed in frictional engagement with oneanother whereby the clothing member and'doll' body may be readilyassembled and disassembled.

5. A costumed doll comprising in combination, a substantially flattwo-dimensional doll body out out from relatively thin and flatcardboard into the form of a doll, a. coating of a non-tacky velvetysubstance secured to the forward surface of said body, and atwo-dimensional member cut out from a relatively thin and flat sheet ofclothlike material into the form of an article of clothing and providedwith a non-tacky velvety rear surface, the said member being placed onthe forward surface of the body so its non-tacky rear surface is infrictional engagement with the said coating on the doll body whereby theclothing member and doll body may be readily assembled and disassembled.

NELSON n. MUNSON, JR.

